Ride My Bike

from 10 Things by SkiM

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This is super important song for us. We're interested in the ironies of how high culture, vast sums of wealth, poverty, and social/racial injustice can exist within a 5-mile radius of a city.

This song focuses on Malcolm X and Morton Feldman. Both existed in New York City at the same time. One devoted is entire life to the Black freedom struggle in the 40s, 50s, and 60s and one devoted his life to the art of music composition and "high art." One lived in Harlem, one frequented his time downtown in art galleries. Both lived in New York City at the same time. How can this be? What's the balance between creating "high art" or art in general and being aware of the suffering that exists within 5 miles from you? In more personal terms, what does it mean that we can rehearse this song on the 3rd floor of a music conservatory while less than a mile away there are people living on the streets, hungry, and in poverty?

We don't know. This song imagines what it would be like if the two met each other.

lyrics

why don't we family?
Teddy B speaks to me
poetry, blundering
pushed around by jet stream

chocolate milk dressed in silk
let my hand press gently
April is time for spring
ride my bike no snowing!

Words for love

brittleness of my teeth
i wanna love you baby
3:15, marry me
what am i saying?

I am proud, not un-cowed
but still I'm sometimes weary
actually more than not
but i swear I'm working

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from 10 Things, released September 29, 2015

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